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其它操作系统综合讨论区 » Red Hat installation question

Floor1　hit	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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I recently put together a new machine and want to try Linux. Red Hat has a pretty good reputation, so I want to give it a try. But I don't know how to install it. I have an 80G hard drive, and I don't know how it should be partitioned. At the same time I want to install 98 and XP. I'm thinking I should leave space for LINUX when partitioning first (currently one primary partition 20G, one extended partition 50G, logical drives D 20G, E 10G, F 10G, leaving 10G for Linux), then install 98, XP, and finally Red Hat. Is that right? Also, when it gets to the step of detecting hard disk partitions and formatting during installation, does it need me to specify the starting position? How should I do it? Please give me some guidance, experts!

Floor2　LanE	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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When it gets to the step of detecting hard disk partitions and formatting, does it need me to specify the starting position From the sound of it, this should be a fairly old version. Newer ones basically all use graphical partitioning tools, which are much easier.

Floor3　禅宗	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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http://www2.zzu.edu.cn/ie/newdos/dispbbs.asp?boardID=10&ID=6053 Read this first As for partitioning, this is how I partitioned the 60G hard drive on my own laptop with SPFDISK: Win98: 3G first primary partition WinXP: 10G second primary partition Win2003: 6G third primary partition The rest is an extended partition, under which I further divided: one work partition: FAT32 format 20G one backup partition: FAT32 format 15G one RedHat Linux Native primary partition 3G one Redhat Linux Swap partition the remaining space Note that when installing Redhat, you must remember not to install its boot record into the primary partition!!!! It absolutely must go into its boot partition, then use SPFDISK's boot function to do multi-boot!!!! Absolutely remember this!!! For related materials please refer to the article on my homepage: "Creating Something from Nothing Is Easy Too"

Floor4　禅宗	Posted 2003-08-15 00:00
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As for the installation order, if you're already familiar with SPFDISK, it doesn't matter at all This software itself has detailed instructions, so you can take a good look yourself.

Floor5　hit	Posted 2003-08-18 00:00
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Why can I only create one primary partition with fdisk? How can I make 4 primary partitions? Also, installing Red Hat 9 to a primary partition should be fine too, right? Does spfdisk have a Chinese version? I've used the English one, but I'm not very good at using it ^_^! Also, could someone help me get a Red Hat 9 installation disc? I really can't get one. If there are any friends in Xi'an, that would be even better. If you're from another place, I can mail the money over. Thanks, everyone!!

Floor6　LanE	Posted 2003-08-18 00:00
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You should be able to buy REDHAT9 discs in larger software shops. As for why FDISK can only create one primary partition, that's because of FDISK itself, or rather, Microsoft did it on purpose.

Floor7　禅宗	Posted 2003-08-18 00:00
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Spfdisk has a Traditional Chinese edition. It's on my homepage, and it's also on the Union FTP. Try looking for it.

Floor8　柳五	Posted 2003-08-18 00:00
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The Union has the Simplified Chinese edition localized by wengier.

Floor9　Wengier	Posted 2003-08-18 00:00
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Using the WinNT/2K/XP boot menu can also achieve multi-boot with Linux. You don't necessarily have to use SPFDISK; that's much more troublesome.